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Migrant man charged after allegedly raping, impregnating own daughter
The man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of aggravated statutory rape of a child.
A migrant man who stayed at a state-run shelter in Marlborough is being held without bail after he was accused of raping and impregnating his teen daughter.
The 42-year-old man appeared in Marlborough District Court Monday, where he pleaded not guilty to a charge of aggravated statutory rape of a child. Boston.com is not naming the man to protect the identity of his daughter.
Judge Meghan Spring ordered the man held without bail pending a Friday dangerousness hearing. It was not immediately clear who represented the man at his arraignment; Boston.com has contacted the Committee for Public Counsel Services for comment.
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The case dates back to last spring, when staff at a school in Marlborough alerted a school resource officer to the 14-year-old girl’s pregnancy, per a statement of facts filed in court.
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An organization operating the emergency shelter out of a Marlborough Holiday Inn flagged the matter to the state’s Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, according to The Boston Globe. The girl alleged her father had had sex with her multiple times, both on the journey to the United States and after their arrival, according to a serious incident report submitted to EOHLC and obtained by the Globe.
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Citing the same report, the MetroWest Daily News reported the girl sent texts to someone indicating she had been pregnant “in the past by her father.”
When the father was separated from his daughter, he allegedly began yelling and making threatening gestures, the Daily News reported. The man has had no contact with the teen since May and had been living at a homeless shelter in Worcester as of January, according to the statement of facts.
The teen gave birth to a child over the summer, according to the court filing. The man supplied a DNA sample to Marlborough police, and subsequent testing found he “cannot be excluded as the biological father of the child” and was “at least 23 trillion times more likely” to be the child’s biological father compared to untested and unrelated individuals, the document states.
Asked why the man was charged months after authorities learned of the alleged rape, a spokesperson for the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office explained the investigation into the allegations began when the matter was reported to the DA’s office in the spring.
“Last week, as a result of evidence gathered during that investigation, we determined that there was probable cause to charge the defendant,” the spokesperson said.
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